Rytwiany is a

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Staszów County __NOTOC__ Staszów County ( pl, powiat staszowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, south-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local g ...

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, in south-central Poland. It is the seat of the

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(administrative district) called

Gmina Rytwiany __NOTOC__ Gmina Rytwiany is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Staszów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Rytwiany, which lies approximately south-east of Staszów and south-east ...

. It lies on the Czarna Staszowska river, approximately south-east of

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and south-east of the regional capital

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. The village has a population of 1,827. Rytwiany, which belongs to the historic province of

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, has a rich and long history. First documented owner of the village was a nobleman named Piotr Bogoria Skotnicki (13th century), and across the centuries, Rytwiany belonged to a number of owners, including Cardinal

Wojciech Jastrzębiec Wojciech of Jastrzębiec (c. 1362–1436) was a Polish mediaeval politician and religious leader. A bishop of Cracow and Poznań, he also held prominent posts at the court of the king Władysław II of Poland. Initially a chancellor to king J ...

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, and several others. In 1425 - 1436, Bishop Jastrzębiec built a defensive Gothic castle in Rytwiany, surrounded by the swamps of the Czarna river. The castle, partly destroyed in 1657 (see

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) was inhabited until the 19th century, then fell into a ruin, to be finally demolished in 1859. All that now remains of it is a

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. In the early 17th century, when the village and the castle belonged to the

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, it was a cultural center of the region. In 1621, upon request of Jan Tęczyński,

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monks settled here, building an abbey and a church. The monks moved to Warsaw in 1819, and their church now serves as a local parish church. In the late 19th century, the Radziwiłł family, who were the last owners of the village, built here a palace, which was remodelled in 2005 and now is a hotel.

Demography

According to the 2002 Poland census, there were 1,672 people residing in Rytwiany village, of whom 49.5% were male and 50.5% were female. In the village, the population was spread out, with 23.7% under the age of 18, 37.7% from 18 to 44, 21.2% from 45 to 64, and 17.3% who were 65 years of age or older.

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Figure 1. Population pyramid of village in 2002 — by age group and sex

References

{{Authority control Villages in Staszów County Radom Governorate Kielce Voivodeship (1919–1939)